I created a new WinXP problem today. And can't find the solution to it.
It all began here:
I have two sound cards in my PC. The first one is onboard and it is quite a lot better than the other one, except it can't play midi files in dos. Thatswhy i intalled another soundcard that is quite old. It ran fine for a few weeks. In Win98 the system sounds are played by the new card. and my dosgames accept the old one(that's fine). But i realized today that when playing a windows game in WinXP that plays midis and waves. The midi files areplayed by the old card and the wave files are played by the new card(Can't listen to both a time). Also winamp plays wave file with one card and midi files with the other one. So i thought that it might be a problem with the options WinXP provides. The newer card only has a software synthisizer, but this one sounds much better than any hardware solution i've seen, so thats ok. In theese options i saw that the midi file was played with this sw synthisizer but the waves produced by it are being played by the wrong card. I didn't found any option to corect this because the standard device in all other options is the NEW soundcard. So i deactivated the old soundcard in the Hardware Manager. As a result winXp wanted to reboot. After the reboot i didn't hear the start sound and wondered why.
Now:
I reinstalled, deinstalled , installed every drive of the two soundcards. And winXP says that all theese cards and codecs an gamports are ready to use. But at the multimedia option it says that there are no audio systems available. I even deleted the files in system32\\drivers\\ directory that are created when installing the drivers before installing them again. Nothing, i can't get it working again.
If anyone knows how to uninstall all drivers please tell me how.
If anyone knows how to fix my problem, please tell me.
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noman
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